Reviews
Album, EP and single reviews from The Skinny. Find reviews of the biggest new releases, as well as new records from up-and-coming new artists from across Scotland, the UK and beyond.
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AlbumsVarious Artists - Limbo Live Volume 01
Limbo is a night promoted by the Black Spring DJs at Edinburgh's Voodoo Rooms, and they are releasing the first in a series of live compilations, showcasing the best that their night has to offer. Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
EpSparrow and the Workshop – Sleight of Hand EP
The current Scottish music scene is healthily diverse, and now Sparrow and the Workshop bring another genre to the mix: country and western. Having only form... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
Albums
British Sea Power - Man of Aran OST
British Sea Power have always courted tangents. In the past they’ve eulogised ice-shelves and greeted immigrants, but their latest effort sees them dig... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
AlbumsPost War Years - The Greats and the Happenings
Does the world really need another electro-pop outfit from London cluttering up MySpace and being overplayed on Skins? Well, one more can’t hurt. Compa... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
SinglesThe Dirty Dozen - May, 2009
Spoilt little popsters, soft rock poseurs and 12 stone toddlers. Nick Mitchell assesses a strange batch of singles Read more »| 01 May 2009 -
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Georgia's Horse - Shepherd EP
In the dusty backstreets of the deep South, tumbleweed clogs drains and cowboy boots pound the ground, while tension, as thick as the dust scorched by the mi... Read more »| 01 May 2009
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Ep
Andrew Bird – Fitz and the Dizzyspells EP
Chicagoan prodigy Andrew Bird is still riding the wave of acclaim that followed the release of Noble Beast earlier this year, to the extent that he now retur... Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
Singles
Ex Wives - Stave/Diktat
You'll play it 'til it breaks Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
Albums
Graham Coxon - The Spinning Top
Opening with a Nick Drake homage and proceeding in a folky vein, The Spinning Top finds Coxon having abandoned the pop-punk modes of his previous two solo al... Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
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The Wow Signal - Infinity's Lobby
From the off this album is littered with familiar flavours. Healthily enthusiastic opener Purr Right drips with the energetic, blues-meets-punk of early Scre... Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
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Hey!Tonal - Hey!Tonal
The pedigree of this collective is unquestionable. Members and ex-members of Storm & Stress, Sweep The Leg Johnny, Maps & Atlases and Joan of Arc, am... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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John Vanderslice - Romanian Names
San Franciscan John Vanderslice releases his third albumm, and debut for Dead Oceans Records, Romanian Names Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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Zoey Van Goey - The Cage Was Unlocked All Along
Glasgow-based three-piece Zoey van Goey seem to have been about forever (that’s not a name you’re likely to forget), yet their recordings have be... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
AlbumsVacuum Spasm Babies - Whipping Clowns
Having apparently toiled in the depths of the Scottish musical underground for two decades, it's a real shame Charles S Bravo and Malcolm Spasm didn't take a... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
Black Mountain found substantial success with last year’s proggy opus In The Future, though sixteen-minute psych-jams were never going to be to everyon... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009